Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-12
Our Home Workmen.

vesting in two new hotels and fitting
up splendid opera house we deem tia
fit occasion 10 speak kindly word in
the interest OF the mechanics and Ia
borers whose homes are in GAINESVILLE
and whose strong arms do so much Of
the hard work which has built up the
city and which is now sustaining it
prosperity.
GAINESVILLE is distinguished for its
fine church edifices, its elegant private
residences, lis splendid public buildings
Its Tobacco Exchange and Court
House equaling in architectural mag
nificence any buildings Of that character
in any city of the South. To the cree
ton OF those buildings GAINESVILLE skill
and GAINESVILLE labor haye largely con-
tributed, and the working man who
now walks our streets can view with
commendable pride the results of the
work OF his own hands.
But the work which should have
been given to GAINESVILLE mechanics
has in some instances been given to
men of other cities and the money
which should have been kept among
our own people has been given to stran-
gers. This is wrong in every view OF
OF the case. 1t tends to deprive our
honest, toilng citizens OF the means OF
supporting their families and educa-
ting their children, and this system, il
carried to its legimate result, will drive
away from our city every workman
whose seli-respect encourages him to
demand fair days wages for an honest
days work.
The preacher in GAINESVILLE who
stands in church built by strangers
cannot expect among his hearers the
working man of this city whose services
were refused when he applied for work
upon the building, and when from the
polished pulpit the preacher recites in
solemn tones the Parable of the Vine.
yard and the penny day it will moi
be heard by the men who bear the bur
den and heat of the day in the forges
and workshops of our city.
Forbes & Co., of Bowling Green
KY, were given the woodwork of the
Methodist church while the wood work
of the courthouse and the recent i'm
provements, including the elegan
spire of the Baptist church, were done
by GAINESVILLE workmen. We mean BY
this, of course, no reflection upon tn,
religion of our Methodist friends, W,
are not discussing creeds, but dollars
dollars that are prime necessities in thi
working world, and we only ask GU
religious friends as we'll as our SHINE
friends to agree upon the one grea
moral principle that "The labor i
worthy of his hire" and that, a sense q
common justice demands that prefer
ence in all cases should be given Il
GAINESVILLE workmen.
Now, before a contract is let or
pick has been stuck in the ground, W
ask our business men to give the work
men of Clar ksville the first chance a
all the important work now conten
plated. We ask this for the sake {
justice, for the rights of the workin
man, and the prosperity of the cit
which is the home alike of the day Ii
borcr the merchant and the banke
Oppressed workingmen are crying OF
all over the North because they ar
wrongfully deprived by monopolies {
a fair reward for their labor, but we hor
this may never be the case in the Soutl
Clarksvile men, capitalists and laborer
should henceforth work together as
community, each receiving justice an
all working for the progres and pro
perity of our city.